Monday, September 30, 2019

Personalities in Mathematics . . .

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     For those of us who spend time in the World of Mathematics, numbers and other mathematical objects often develop personalities.    Prev...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Articles that link math and poetry . . .

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Below I offer links to two articles that I rediscovered recently.       The first is a National Geographic Education Blog posting from 20...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Sing a Song of Mathematics . . .

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     One of the long-term supporters of links between mathematics and the arts is Douglas Norton -- a mathematics professor at Villanova Uni...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Beautiful algebra -- a Haiku

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     One of my recent discoveries has been the POEM GENERATOR website at  https://www.poem-generator.org.uk/ .  In particular, I have used i...
Friday, September 13, 2019

"Creation Myth on a Moebius Band"

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Found at this site , several MINIMS -- brief,thought-provoking poems by Howard Nemerov (1920-1991).  This one deftly uses the mathematical ...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Colorado Math-Poetry Contest -- deadline 11-12-19

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 CONSIDER THIS !  The American Mathematical Society is sponsoring   a   math-poetry contest     for middle school, high school, and...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Is TWO more than ONE?

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     A poetry friend reminded me recently via email of the poetry of Shel Silverstein  (1930-1999) -- both humorous and provocative.  The em...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Poems of Mathematics -- recalling some old posts

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     Today I have been browsing some old posts, and offer below a few links to remind us of mathy poems posted in this blog more than five y...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Is this Fib true?

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     Is      it      true that      among folks      not anchored to math      by study or career choice, more      people show deli...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Enrich Mathematics Classes with Poems

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    In my mathematics classrooms, I have found it a challenge to include the history and spirit of mathematics -- and its people -- along wi...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

The personal becomes mathematical -- in poetry

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      Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)  used counting in her description of love in her sonnet that begins "How do I love thee? ...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Counting the Women . . .

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     Sometimes a professional group or a meeting-agenda or a table of contents contains so few women's names that they are easily counte...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics--a TREASURE

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     Online and available FREE, the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is a wonderful source of poems and stories and articles that connect ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Celebrating Paul Erdos

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     One of the most interesting and productive mathematicians of all time was Paul Erdos (1913-1996).  He was author of more than 1416 pape...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Poetry and Science

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     Originally from Scotland,  Alice Major is a celebrated Canadian poet whose work often focuses on key ideas in mathematics and science....
Monday, August 5, 2019

A visual poem -- Decision tree

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From Norwegian math-poet Mike Naylor , this fascinating visual poem.  (Thanks, Mike -- from  JoAnne Growney  -- for permission to post.) ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Recursion . . . in a life . . . in a poem . . .

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     The New Yorker offers a rich variety of poetry and in their print issue of 22 July 2019 they give a poem that I love:   "Sentence...
Monday, July 29, 2019

What is beauty? Is mathematics beautiful?

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     My thoughts have been turned to the beauty of mathematics by stumbling onto a very fine article, "Beauty Bare: The Sonnet Form, Ge...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

As in mathematics--a lot in a few words--in Haiku

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     Recently on a visit to the website Singapore Math I found dozens of "mathematical" Haiku -- and I offer several below.   Sti...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Mathematicians are not just white dudes . . .

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     Recently I found the wonderfully informative website arbitrarily close: musings on math and teaching -- my first visit to the site was...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Math-Poetry -- Linz, Austria -- 07/19/2019

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     On Friday, July 19, 2-4 PM at the 2019 Bridges Math-Arts Conference in Linz, Austria will be a Reading of Mathematical Poetry that fe...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

An Ode to Mathematics

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     One of the math-poets that I have met through this blog is Foteck Ivota, a mathematics teacher in the Cameroon.  In an email message, I...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Mother-daughter geometry -- in poetry . . .

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     Last week (July 9) was the birthday of my mother -- and, although her body lies in a grave, her spirit continues to dance (and to both ...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Euler's Vision -- in Verse

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      Scheduled to be read at the Mathematical Association of Victoria's annual conference in December of this year is a poetical chora...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Visual Poetry -- Newton's Third Law

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     One of the long-term and talented producers and advocates of mathematical visual poetry is Kaz Maslanka; his long-term mathematical-poe...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Fighting the heat -- with limericks!

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     Brief poems with strict patterns -- like the FIB and the LIMERICK -- are often used to convey mathy messages.  Recently this limerick ...
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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Out of Nothing -- A Strange New Universe

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      Shashi Thutupalli is a scientist -- in Bangalore, India -- who enjoys poetry and often explores the connections between poetry and ma...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Counting to seventy . . .

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    I am exited by last week's news that Oklahoma poet-- and member of the Muskogee Nation --  Joy Harjo  has been appointed Poet Laure...
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Friday, June 21, 2019

Connecting with BRIDGES . . .

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      Bridges Math-Arts Conferences have become an annual summer tradition and this year's conference is July 16-20 in Linz, Austria. ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Love, marriage, and number . . .

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     Australian poet Richard Scutter has online collection of his own poems ( this link leads to a chronological listing ) and of favorit e...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Solve a puzzle -- find a poem!

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     At Canada's Capilano University, Lisa Lajeunesse  teaches in mathematics in the School of STEM -- and is an enthusiastic promoter o...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Sailboat Mathematics

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     Celebrated on June 2 at the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series Washington DC's Rock Creek Nature Center, poetry by winners of the  Jackl...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Have fun with "The Pi Song"

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     Often we celebrate the number pi -- ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, an infinite non-repeating decimal that begi...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Celebrating Walt Whitman . . .

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     Last Friday -- May 31, 2019 -- was the 200th anniversary of the birth of American poet, Walt Whitman and the website of the Academy of ...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Delicious Geometry. . .words from Bertrand Russell

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     Sometimes we find that words presented as prose are poetic . . . as these words of British philosopher and mathematician  Bertrand Russ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

2019 Student Math-Poetry -- FREE Poster

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MATH-POETRY POSTER! A GREAT item for a classroom bulletin board! Late in 2018 Maryland math students were invited to enter a math-poetr...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Seek . . . and Find

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     This blog has more than a thousand posts -- and many have been discovered as the days passed and are not organized by topic.  To explor...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Poetic roots -- square, cube, . . .

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     In the 2008 film, "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar offers a poem, " Square Root of Three " -- a poem ...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

If 1718 is a poem title . . .

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If 1718  is a poem title,  the poem should celebrate Marie Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) author of the first book about both differential...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

I'm tired of being a zero vector . ..

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there are more       to figures       than ever meets       the eye      Inexhaustible GOOGLE has led me to a website " The Best Phi...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Dinner at a Math Conference . . .

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     A strong advocates of humanistic mathematics -- supporting links between mathematics and the arts -- is Greg Coxson, both a poetry fan...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

What is TIME?

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    Recently I have been reflecting on the capacity for multiple meanings -- a feature that strongly links mathematics and poetry; with this...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Celebrating math teachers

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  This week (May 6-10) is        US Teacher Appreciation Week 2019          Celebrate your teachers with poems!       This link...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

PLAY with math words . . . find a poem

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A few days ago -- playing with math words -- I found this. Here's a link to SEARCH results for this blog's presentations ...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Al-gorithms . . . conform or suffer?

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      Thanks to poet/mathematician Scott Williams who alerted me to this work by "a good poet and friend" Stephen Lewandowski , a...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Zero plus anything is . . .

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     Poet Jane Hirshfield is an award-winning poet, essayist and translator  whose work and I admire and enjoy .  In her collections I have...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Poems in support of Earth Day

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     These words come from an editorial by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post in September of 2018.           Public awareness      ...